Your Health in the Information Age: How You and Your Doctor Can Use the Internet to Work Together - Softcover

Yellowlees, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595527752 ISBN 13: 9780595527755

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Welcome to Your health in the Information Age ? How You And Your Doctor Can Work Together. This book has been written for the 120 million people in the USA who have already used the Internet to find health information for themselves or a loved one, and for the tens of millions of others whose medical records are now kept electronically by their doctor. This book is for all those who want to use the internet to improve their health, who want to improve their relationship with their doctor, and who want to use the power of knowledge gained from their doctor and the Internet, to improve their health. It is written in a practical way to allow you to understand and select the right type of health information and use it in your relationship with your doctor in a way that is most helpful for you.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Yellowlees MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Health Informatics Program at the University of California Davis. He has lived in England, Australia and the USA and is an internationally recognized expert in health on the Internet. He lives with his wife Barb, in Sacramento, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595527752
• ISBN 13: 9780595527755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208